SALETTI Stefano & PICCOLA BANDA IKONA
Folkpolitik

FT 57

8018550060674
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Italia

 

In his new record Stefano Saletti with the PICCOLA BANDA IKONA, alongside original compositions have arranged pieces by Mediterranean authors who have translated in music the struggle against power, suffering persecution, arrests, violence. From the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain, the Palestinian Diaspora, until the creation of the Sardinian hymn, son of the French Revolution against the excessive power of the barons. The PICCOLA BANDA IKONA in his original compositions sung in Sabir, the old lingua franca spoken in the ports of the Mediterranean from Genoa to Tangier, from Thessaloniki to Istanbul, from Marseilles to Algiers, from Valencia to Palermo. A sort of sailor esperanto, formed little by little with words taken from Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic.


When from the streets of Tunis, Cairo, Damascus came the sights and sounds of Arabic Spring my mind went racing to the 70's, when Europe was crossed by a wind of freedom that swept away authoritarian regimes in Spain, Greece and Portugal. Those squares are the same: the same faces, hopes, colours, sounds, songs. A struggle for freedom today ideally combines the two shores of the Mediterranean and further demonstrates the strength of popular music as the voice of the people. In their joys and defeats.
Stefano Saletti

In his new record Stefano Saletti with the PICCOLA BANDA IKONA, alongside original compositions have arranged pieces by Mediterranean authors who have translated in music the struggle against power, suffering persecution, arrests, violence. A trip down memory lane to rediscover the music that told the suffering and passion of the Mediterranean peoples. From the expulsion of the Sephardic Jews from Spain, the Palestinian Diaspora, until the creation of the Sardinian hymn son of the French Revolution against the excessive power of the barons.The PICCOLA BANDA IKONA in his original compositions sung in Sabir, the old lingua franca which sailors, pirates, fishermen, merchants, ship owners, spoke in the ports of the Mediterranean from Genoa to Tangier, from Thessaloniki to Istanbul, from Marseilles to Algiers, from Valencia to Palermo. A sort of sailor esperanto, formed little by little with words taken from Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic.